<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/template.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Welcome</title>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
<div class="sidebar1">
<div class="top-bit">
	<img class="image-spacer" src="images/logo.png" width="65" height="79" alt="VALS semester of code" />
	<span class="mini-title"><br />
	<br />
	<br />
	<br />
	VALS<br />
	Semester of Code&nbsp;</span>
	<br />
</div>

	<div class="menu-title">General</div>
    <ul class="nav">
      	<li><a href="index.htm">Welcome to VALS</a></li>
      	<li><a href="participate.htm">How do I participate?</a></li>
		<li><a href="roles.htm">Roles in the system</a></li>
		<li><a href="timeline.htm">Timeline & workflow</a></li>
    </ul>
	
	<div class="menu-title">Institution admins</div>
    <ul class="nav">	
		<li><a href="register-institute.htm">Registering yourself</a></li>
		<li><a href="register-institute2.htm">Adding additional supervisors/admins</a></li>
		<li><a href="register-institute3.htm">Adding students</a></li>
    </ul>

	<div class="menu-title">Organisation admins</div>
    <ul class="nav">
      	<li><a href="register-organisation.htm">Registering yourself</a></li>
      	<li><a href="register-organisation2.htm">Adding additional mentors/admins</a></li>
    </ul>
	
	<div class="menu-title">Mentors</div>
    <ul class="nav">
      	<li><a href="register-mentor.htm">Registering yourself</a></li>
      	<li><a href="mentor-adding-a-project.htm">Adding a project idea</a></li>
		<li><a href="mentor-browse-proposals.htm">Browsing proposals made by students</a></li>
      	<li><a href="mentor-proposal-status.htm">Proposal status and offering the project to a student</a></li>
      	<li><a href="mentor-browse-accepted-projects.htm">Your accepted projects</a></li>
    </ul>
	
	<div class="menu-title">Supervisors</div>
    <ul class="nav">	
		<li><a href="register-supervisor.htm">Registering yourself</a></li>
		<li><a href="register-institute3.htm">Adding students</a></li>
		<li><a href="supervisor-browse-proposals.htm">Browsing proposals made by students</a></li>
      	<li><a href="supervisor-browse-accepted-projects.htm">Your accepted projects</a></li>
    </ul>
	
	<div class="menu-title">Students</div>
    <ul class="nav">	
		<li><a href="register-student.htm">Registering yourself</a></li>
		<li><a href="student-browse-projects.htm">Browsing the project ideas</a></li>
		<li><a href="student-write-proposal.htm">Writing a proposal</a></li>
		<li><a href="student-accept-project-offer.htm">Accepting an offer</a></li>
		<li><a href="student-after-accepted.htm">Your accepted project</a></li>
    </ul>


  <!-- end .sidebar1 --></div>
  <div class="content"><br/>
  <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="main-content" -->

			<h1>Welcome to VALS Semester of code</h1>
			<p>&nbsp;</p>
			<p>The Semester of Code (SoC) is an initiative of the European
				VALS project, which allows computer science students to address real
				business problems raised by companies and OSS Foundations, and get
				rewarded for resolving them (with academic credits mostly)
<!-- 				reflecting it in their formal education. -->
				There are three main stakeholders in this project:</p>
			<ol>
				<li>Universities, who want to offer authentic teaching and
					assessment opportunities using current industry best practices.</li>
				<li>Students, who want to obtain relevant experience and to
					make contacts in the industry which they can use to help start their
					career after graduation.<br />
				</li>
				<li>Employers, who are seeking graduates with real-world
					programming experience and related soft skills such as
					communicating in distributed project teams and working with
					contemporary development tools and practices.</li>
			</ol>
			<p>VALS Project creates the Semester of Code, bringing together
				Academic Supervisors from Higher Education (HE), mentors, the primary responsables for the
				participating projects of enterprises and foundations, and students. These
				stakeholders work together in a virtual placement that allows to
				raise problems and track the resolving process.</p>
			<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->

			<!-- end .content --></div>
<!-- end .container --></div>
</body>
<!-- InstanceEnd --></html>
